Pneumocystis jiroveci is an important cause of mortality and morbidity among heart transplant recipients. This raises the question of prophylactic treatment for this infection. Trimethoprimsulfamethoxazole is commonly used in P. jiroveci pneumonia prophylaxis with mild to severe adverse effects. We present the use of inhaled pentamidine as P. jiroveci prophylaxis in a patient with an allergy to...

Notes: “-“ indicates not mentioned in article Therapy: HDF: hemodiafiltration; HD: hemodialysis; CAVH: continuous arteriovenovenous hemofiltration Diagnoses: TF: tibial fracture; POM: polymicrobial osteomyelitis; GD: gastric dysplasia; CD: cardiac disease; VPS: ventriculoperitoneal shunt; PD: Parkinson’s disease; P: pneumonia Vancomycin assay: EMIT: enzyme-multiplied immunoassay technique, Sylv...

Objective: The present study was aimed to determine the distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility of strains isolated from urinary tract infections in our region. Materials and Methods: In this study, the distribution and antibiotic resistance profiles of microorganisms isolated from the urine cultures of urology outpatient clinic and ward patients between December 2011 and May 2013 were re...

BACKGROUND Moraxella catarrhalis is a commensal organism of the respiratory tract that has emerged as an important pathogen for a variety of upper and lower respiratory tract infections including otitis media and acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis. Susceptibility testing of M catarrhalis is not routinely performed in most diagnostic laboratories; rather, a comment predicting susceptibili...

A previously healthy 9-year-old boy presented to the emergency department for evaluation of swelling of the right eye, which had been present for 24 hours. His parents reported that he had an antecedent history of nighttime cough, frontal headache, and green nasal discharge for the 10 days prior to admission. Three days before admission, he developed a fever of 103.5°F. One day prior to admissi...

A healthy 42-year-old Japanese woman presented with a 7-day history of a painful palpable mass under her chin (Picture A). A computed tomography scan demonstrated a subcutaneous abscess (Picture B and C), which was aspirated by an otolaryngologist. Kinyoun staining of the specimen showed positive results (Picture D), and the organism was identified as Nocardia brasiliensis by culture and 16s rR...

T he microorganism Listeria monocytogenes is a common cause of central nervous system (CNS) infections associated with an unfavourable prognosis; series published in the past decade indicate a lethality of 12–43%. 2 Overall, acute meningitis is the most frequently encountered form of listerial CNS infection, but healthy adults more frequently develop rhombencephalitis (RE). Optimal treatment fo...

Nocardiosis is an uncommon infection caused by Nocardia species, a group of aerobic actinomycetes. Disease in humans is rare and often affects patients with underlying immune compromise. Acquisition of this organism is usually via the respiratory tract, but direct inoculation into the skin is possible, usually in the setting of trauma. We report an encounter of a previously healthy man, with ce...

A total of 57 Vibrio vulnificus isolates from coastal water were characterized for their antimicrobial resistance, plasmid profiles and were typed by the PCR-based techniques: a random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD) method and the enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequence (ERIC) method. All isolates were susceptible to chloramphenicol, nalidixic acid, tetracycline and tr...